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Maxim Douglas is Salgood Sam, I am a Montreal based full time doodler and itinerate artist.

I’ve always drawn, both my parents did so…

I had a rather... interesting experience - childhood in general but while in school specifically here - and was retired early on. Up untill then I spent a lot of time - much of the summers of the mid to late 80’s - hanging out at my mothers work. The studios of Nelvana animation. Bugging the other artists, being a nerd Goofin’ on the vid test bed doing very short doodly animations, and making zines on the copiers. My first was a trashy tabloid called the Globo Hobo with Mr T in drag for the cover story, and my first sexy girl drawings were copies of character sheets for Angel, of Rock & Rule [Uncle Milky rules!].

So when i left school, I was already making my own comic zines and selling on consignment at local comic shops, and in '88 at 18 I left home and set out to start a carrier, being an artist but mostly really working in restaurant kitchens. Hence my affinity for pirates.

But the art thing started to go pretty well, and soon I was doing illustration gigs for local businesses. I had been developing an idea with local comic shop owner Al Roy, and in early 1991 my first B&W comic, Nature of the Beast was published by Calibre Press.

I also got a little taste of doing things the marvel way, when Dave Ross gave me a bit of work ghost penciling for him as an assitant on Cloak and Dagger #18 "The Heat is On!".

Sick of kitchen work I perused work in the mainstream comics biz. I did a few test pages for DC, and in 92 I drew two issues of Night Breed for Marvel, and in 93, quite unexpectedly I suddenly found myself assigned to draw a monthly comic book, the ill-fated Saint Sinner for the new Razor Line.

After the better part of the year doing that I had to move on. Shaken but not too stirred I continued to work as a freelancer for Marvel off and on for a while in 94.

That year I drew A short in Morbius the Living Vampire #25, titled “the Drainage System”. A cool issue of Ghost Rider 2099, titled 'Horrorshow' written by a young Warren Ellis. An issue of Ravage 2099, a short in Midnight Sons Unlimited #6, with Ghost Rider, Doctor Strange and Clea. 'Song of he Blood Opal', #63 of Doctor Strange, and Ghost Rider 2099 'Daddy Dearest', which I co wrote with a friend. In 2099 Unlimited #8 there was 'Behind the EightBall', a 10 page Spiderman story. And I also got back in touch with DC and did a Bloodwynd short in #5 of Showcase 94 titled 'Hero of Choice'.

The Ghost Rider 2099 issues were file issues and when the book was cancelled it left them unpublished. The Ravage story had the same fate of being cancelled a few issues before its slated print date. That all was disappointing, and at the time i felt the rest were all coloured horribly, and I was less than wowed by the stories I was being asked to draw on the whole. The last straw was being asked to do another Morbius the Living Vampire, and after agreeing sent the hands-down, most awful and undrawable script ever. I awkwardly declined and decided to take a step back and re-evaluate things.

After a year of that I started working again, mostly day jobs designing at Nelvana animation studios ( the family business as it were ) and assorted illustration gigs. Spare time went into playing with my own ideas, doing short stories and learning how to write for myself for a change.

Also in around 1995 I was approached to create graphics for a new INSP, key.net, which became hub.org in 96. They didn’t ask for much more than a few graphics in the first year - the web was slower place then and led the tech guys to make it a mostly text driven system. Nevertheless this led to my early initial involvement in the internet. I got free dial up, email and space online for a small web site. I put up my first web page in 97, but it took a while to work out what to do.

I started freelancing drawing comics again in 98. 'The Wire that Tamed the West' in The Big Book of the Weird Wild West : Paradox press/DC comics.

In 99 there was 'Reefer Madness' & 'The New Buffalo' in The Big Book of Vice : Paradox press/DC comics – 1999. 'Monsters of ROCK' in The Big Book of the Seventies : Paradox press/DC comics - 2000. And 'Realworlds: Wonder Woman vs. the Red Menace' - DC comics – 2000, an 48 page graphic novella Scripted by Glen Hanson & Allan Neuwirth.

I spent 2000 doing some more animation design work, and drew some more short stories in my spare time. I started trying to get more illustration work around this time as well, with mixed results – I get a few gigs here and there ok, but I really need a rep for this, I just don’t have the skilz/desire to kiss up enough, makes me feel all dirty. Still looking for one, if anyone is asking…?

Around this time I also started to host The Monthly Montreal Comix Jams, which I did for about 4.5 years I think. That was a lot of fun, until it wasn’t anymore. They still go on fine without me on mind you, so thats cool.

In 2001 with all the talk about the new Marvel I thought I’d give them another try, so there was 'The Changeling' for Muties #1of6 and 'The Patriot Game', Muties #6of6. But the pig sex incident really kind of truncated my interest in working with them much. Just too silly.

I also had a short story drawn in 99, Where the Wild things are, published in Danny Hellman’s first Legal Action comics.

In 2002 I inked pencils by Goran Parlov, in books 1 & 2 of Terminator 3: Before the Rise at Beckett Comics. A fun gig to work on with a great crew, but then I was not so happy about it after HE went into politics.

In 2003 I had another short, Helpless, published in Danny Hellman’s 2nd Legal Action comics. But for most of 2003 and part of 2004 I used the $ made doing illustration work to develop my own stuff, but things went slowly till I was able again to do comics full time. I was asked to illustrate and adapt to comics form a short story, The rise and fall of it all. Written and composed by John O'Brian. This project proved very inspiring and I was able to quickly put together the first act of 5 and along with some of my other personal stuff, in a small press run of my personal anthology, RevolveR. I got a lot of good feed back [1-2-3]and a few award nominations for it [1 - 2], and continue to keep the ball on that project rolling, though admittedly very slowly. RevolveR 2 has just been printed and was launched at Expozine 2007 here in Montreal.

In 2005 I hooked up with Rick Remender & Kieron Dwyer to do the bloody swashbuckling Sea of Red at Image, people said some nice stuff about that too, always cool. I have long term plans to return to the title, or the genre with a script idea of my own. Might take a while but eventually for sure.

In 2006 I wrote a lot, and applied for a grant from The Canadian Council for the Arts, receiving it in early 2007. Late in 2006 I signed on to draw a childhood favourite, [Revolution on the] Planet of the Apes, and had a blast working with some old buddies on that book. Mr Comics has plans to publish the collected series in 2007, I heartedly encourage you to check it out. [Note: Revolution has been voted the 7th best of 10 comics for 2006 by SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE]

Therefore Repent, which was previewed here on comic space first, a graphic novel i completed with Jim Munroe, was published in 2007, by IDW in 2008 and has garnered us some fantastic praise...

"Therefore Repent! is great. Loved the conflict between the old and new religions, plus it's got Jesus and mutants." -- Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned

"Therefore Repent! is impressive, layered, and in places surprisingly funny. I didn't think it would be my sort of thing, but I enjoyed it." --Jim Ottaviani, author of FALLOUT: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb

"Now, just dealing with the Rapture might be enough of a hook, but Jim and Salgood do a great job of characterization from the very beginning. The two protagonists are so interesting that I had to keep turning page after page to see what and who they were. And yes, Salgood can draw like nobody's business... I give this book two thumbs up." --Chris Pitzer, AdHouse Books

"The tale's offbeat anarchy and peculiar, parodic charms will win you over. It's like one of those church pamphlets about salvation gone terribly, terribly wrong." --John Burns, The Georgia Straight

"Therefore Repent! is an absolutely boundless piece of fantasy that he wisely grounds in very human relationships... to say it's an imaginative work would be an understatement: 'unhinged' is probably more accurate. I can't wait for more."-- Robert J. Wierseman, Quill & Quire

"The art is extraordinarily fluid and the storyline ingenious and sharply intelligent." --Jeff VanderMeer, Realms of Fantasy

"It's completely nuts... It's a book about what if the Rapture actually happened, and that's all I'm gonna tell you." --Junot Diaz, 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction

Joe Shuster Award Nominee for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Writer 2008

The book has managed something like 5000 units so far, with 1800+ legal downloads as a torrent as well! You can grab it at amazon, from NMK or IDW.

Currently i'm working on a new Graphic Novel called "Dream Life; a late coming of age" - you can track work in progress on that on this page.

I've also got work in a few new anthologies, "Widows"; Story by Rantz Hoseley and Published in Awesome 2: Awesomer. So much fun and such a bargain that you’ll forget you’re helping realize someone’s educational dreams. Half the proceeds from every book sold will go to fund a student scholarship to the Center for Cartoon Studies!

"Up Side Down" co-written By Mark Sable and Appearing in the Eisner winning Comic Book Tattoo! A collection Inspired by the songs of Tori Amos!

"We Invented someone" After 'I invented someone' by SPEARMINT, appearing in THIS IS A SOUVENIR: THE SONGS OF SPEARMINT & SHIRLEY LEE.

And close to my hart, "Honolulu Lorie’s Lava Love Lounge" appearing in Popgun 4!

And i'm back at doing work for hire, to track all that and the latest other things go to...

salgoodsam.com
work in progress is most of the time posted to flickr

Extra curricular - Myspace - CH ZERO - Sequential - Flickr

A selection of work for professional illustration work...